Charges Against Cleary
While Kerman got a 15 month sentence, her ex-lover Cleary faced bigger charges. She was charged with conspiracy to import heroin, thus, she served close to six years in a California prison. Then in 2008, she got parole. During her prison sentence, she wrote screenplays, fiction and poetry. However, her memoir Out of Orange was her first published work.
Charges Against Cleary
Informants
On Orange is the New Black, the romance between Piper and Alex faces conflict over whether Alex named Piper as an informant. In real life, Cleary explains that everyone named people, saying, “They had picked the first round of us up two years prior to Piper’s somewhat congenial visit from the feds. So, yes, I named her, she named me, and we all named each other. Fact was, we all thought we were doing the right thing, confessing, getting protection, and saving ourselves from certain death at the hands of a Nigerian drug lord who we knew would soon find we had all been arrested.”
Informants